Maxwell Yurkofsky is an assistant professor in the Doctor of Education Program at Radford University. He obtained his Ed.D. in Educational Policy, Leadership, and Instructional Practice from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2020. His research and teaching centers on understanding how school systems can organize for continuous improvement towards more ambitious and equitable visions of learning, and he is committed to preparing school and system leaders to strategically utilize improvement science, organizational theory, evaluation, and design principles to inquire into and address high-leverage problems of practice.
Dr. Yurkofsky has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including Review of Research in Education, The Harvard Educational Review, Teaching and Teacher Education, Computers & Education, Teachers College Record, Educational Policy, and the Peabody Journal of Education. His dissertation won the “Dissertation of the Year” award from the Leadership for School Improvement Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association in 2021.